Paul verlaine poems french

Paul Verlaine

‘Portrait of Paul Verlaine’
Edgar Chahine (France, 1874 - 1947)
The Minneapolis Institute of Art

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(Premier vers: À Don Quichotte)

O Don Quixote, old paladin, grand Bohemian,

In vain the vile, absurd crowd stood laughing:

Your life was a poem, your death a martyrdom,

And those windmills were no error, o my king!

Go on forever, armoured by your passion,

Mounted on that strange steed I adore.

Go, sublime gleaner! The law’s omissions,

Prove more numerous, greater than before.

Hurrah!

We sacred poets, ride in your train,

Our hair unbound, and circled with vervain.

Lead us on the charge towards high fantasy,

And soon, despite betrayal, endless tr Verlaine, Paul (1844–1896) - Further selected poems in ... DAPI